Hands Dirty Exercise 1
In this exercise you will look at Corpora and participate in discussions and examinations on the discussion page. Corpora are compiled and prepared by various institutions for various reasons.
Here are some links to websites of American English corpora:
- Corpus of Contemporary American English
- The Manual for the Brown Corpus
- The American National Corpus
Use one these and/or search the web for more corpora of American English. Find at least one general corpus and one corpus of a specific type of language use.
Use the search tools provided to answer the following:
- What is the most common word in each corpus?
- What are three different ways to subdivide the corpora?
- Search for a slang term in the general corpus. Is it there? Try another.
Post and compare answers on this page's discussion page.
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